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This is a guest post from Sharon Hurley Hall from PiggyBankPie.com Writing Services.

A blog is an easy way to make money online. You can make money from syndicating the content you have written, from contextual advertising and from promoting affiliate products. However, in order to do any of these things and to be truly successful, you need to attract visitors to your blog and raise your blog’s profile. One easy way to do this is by using blog carnivals.

What Are Blog Carnivals?

When you think of a carnival you probably have an image of lights and noise. There may not be any floats in a blog carnival but you are making noise about your best posts and shining a spotlight on them.

A blog carnival is a collection of posts from different blogs grouped around a theme. There are carnivals for business, writing, cities, money, health, religion and other carnivals where you can blow your own trumpet by highlighting the posts that you consider to be your best.

Blog carnivals are posted at intervals – weekly, monthly or quarterly – and are published in one of two ways. Either they have a regular home such as Performancing’s Carnival of Internet Pros or they rotate from blog to blog so that each blog has the chance to host the carnival.

Submitting To Blog Carnivals

This is a foolproof way of getting new readers for your writing. All you need to do is find an appropriate carnival and submit the post. You can do this through Blogcarnival.com, giving your name, email and permalink to the post and choosing a category. As part of the submission you need to give a description of your post (in the remarks section). Make this as interesting as possible.

Benefits Of Blog Carnivals

Whether you take part in a blog carnival or use your blog to host one there are benefits. If you take part in a blog carnival – or several carnivals – you get attention from new readers who may well subscribe to your blog or click on one of your links. This is the easier option. If you decide to host a blog carnival then you will need to spend time collating all the submissions. However, many of the participants in the carnivals will link back to your blog or will at least check it out to see where their post has been sited.

Used regularly, blog carnivals can be an effective way of increasing traffic to your blog. More traffic means a better chance that people will read your writing and look at the products that you are promoting.

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